Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer (13 March 1950-21 June 2018) was an American conservative political columnist and political pundit.

Biography
Charles Krauthammer was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York on 13 March 1950 to a family of Orthodox Jews from Ukraine and Belgium. While at his first year studying medicine at Harvard, Krauthammer was paralyzed from the neck down after a diving board accident, and he went on to become a psychiatrist. In 1978, he joined Jimmy Carter's administration as a director of psychiatric research, and he became a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980. He was mostly liberal, but also held some neoconservative "Scoop Jackson Democrat" views such as a hardline stance towards the Soviet Union and a pro-Israel stance. By the mid-1980s, he held liberal views on the economy and social questions, but he was a foreign policy neoconservative. During this time, he became a successful columnist and political commentator, and he was a weekly panelist for PBS' Inside Washington from 1990 until it ceased production in 2013. He was also a prominent neoconservative political columnist and pundit on Fox News, advocating for the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the torture of suspected Islamist terrorists. In August 2017, due to his battle with cancer, he stopped writing his column and serving as a Fox News contributor, and he died in Atlanta, Georgia in 2018 at the age of 68.